Collection Contents

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Captured German Documents, 1944-1945.

Scope and Content Note

Administrative orders, clippings, correspondence, diaries, instructions, leaflets, maps, memoranda, pamphlets, reports. The
series includes only those German documents that were processed by various agencies of American and British governments and
forwarded to the Psychological Warfare Division. The original arrangement—division into files A, DE, etc.—has been preserved,
although the reasons for such a division are not always clear. Copies of the same document may sometimes be found in several
files. The inventories of three files (DE, PID, and S) were compiled previously, perhaps by Daniel Lerner. Two of them (DE
and S) appear in Lerner's book,
Sykewar: Psychological Warfare against Germany, pp. 350-389. Although a few documents in these files are missing, the inventories were incorporated in the register unchanged

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General

Memorandum on subversive activities of Russians in the German army, June 1944 (unnumbered)

Memorandum on political tasks of the German soldier in the East, 18 October 1944 (unnumbered)

Memorandum on morale in the Wehrmacht, 27 October 1944 (unnumbered)

Directives to use Allied decrees in occupied Germany for stirring up hatred against the Allies, November 1944 (unnumbered)

Thirty-eight extracts from letters written by German civilians, October 1944-January 1945 (#344)

Ten extracts from letters written by German civilians, October 1944 - November 1945 (#345)

Four extracts from letters written by German civilians and soldiers, August-November 1944 (#353)

Diary of a NSFO, July 1944 - February 1945 (#360)

Eleven extracts from letters written by German civilians and soldiers, March 1945 (#370)

Three extracts from German newssheets, March-April 1945 (#371)

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A-File

Report on sanitary conditions among German front line troops, July 1944 (#266)

Himmler's order: Germans should work and fight even harder, 2 August 1944 (#331)

Three letters to civilians and extracts from a diary by a soldier on difficulties of war conditions, May-September 1944 (#361)

Instruction concerning organization and equipment of the Volkssturm, November 1944 (#627)

German leaflet on success of German troops, November-December 1944 (#679)

Report on conditions in the concentration camp Dachau by a German who was put for an indefinite term in Dachau for "his repeated
ignoring of order to work on a road-building project" in June 1937 (#798)

Six extracts from letters written by soldiers and civilians in Germany, 1944-1945 (#1522)

Extracts from interrogation reports of German POWs on their attitude toward Americans and Russians, and memorandum on furloughs
for German soldiers from the East (#1580)

Extracts from three letters from Berlin area addressed to a German soldier captured in Alsace, January-February 1945 (#1603)

Seven extracts from letters by German civilians to soldiers, January-February 1945 (#1608)

Extracts from six letters by German civilians and soldiers, January-February 1945 (#1675)

Extracts from nine letters written by German civilians to soldiers, February 1945 (#1830)

German propaganda materials, February-March 1945 (#1831)

Messages by Himmler and Jodl on necessity to fight to the last soldier, April 1945, and information given by a foreign worker on a new location of the propaganda radio station "Siegfried Line Calling" (#1864)

Two extracts from a letter written by a German civilian to a soldier, March 1945 (#1876)

NSDAP propaganda materials. Instructions and leaflets (#1924)

Reports by Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Aschaffenburg concerning morale of the population, December 1944 - February 1945 (#1925)

Propaganda directives to German newspapers, March 1945, and a letter to Eisenhower signed by women of Heidelberg (#1926)

Letter signed by Eduard Schneider to the American military government; SS order on curfew, April 1945; propaganda leaflets on Werwolf and on Hitlerjugend in the Volkssturm (#1927)

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DE-File

Ten extracts from letters written by German civilians (#9)

"High treason" of German prisoners of war. Threats against their families (#10)

Diary of life in the "Etappe" (#11)

Handbook and maps for the invasion of Great Britain (#12)

Communications for the troops (#13)

More strength through fear and more social demagogy (#14)

Replacements for German units must be "infiltrated" with Nazi spirit (#15)

Memoranda on foreign workers (November 1944) and on Russians in German army (February 1945) (#16)

Memorandum on relations between German soldiers and civilians, November 1944 (#17)

Memoranda on mistreatment of POWs (January 1945) and on military insignia (December 1944) (#18)

Memorandum on foreign workers, January 1945 (#19)

Death sentences to German officers who failed to destroy bridge across the Rhine, March 1945 (#20)

Letter written by Charlotte Kleeman to her family, April 1944 (#21)

Letter written by Major Erich Franz to Melitta Franz, December 1944 (#22)

Instruction what soldiers should write to their relatives, September 1944 (#23)

Extracts from "Der politische Soldat" on functions of Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst, 1944 (#24)

Order concerning desertions in Italy, May 1944 (#25)

Memoranda concerning Allied interrogators, May 1944(#26)

Memoranda on educational value of detention units, April 1944 (#27)

Telegram by Mackensen to soldiers of the 14th Army, May 1944 (#28)

Memorandum on security issues, n.d. (#29)

Extract from "Panzerfunk" on the resistance to Allies in Germany, October 1944 (#30)

Memoranda to SD Führer of Strassburg on morale and patriotism of Germans, November 1944 (#31)

History of NSDAP, 1918-1939 (#32)

Extracts from diaries of German soldiers, January-September 1944 (#33)

Extracts from diary of Leutnant Horst Neujahr, 1941-1943 (#34)

Extracts from diary of a German captain, no name, February-December 1942 (#35)

Extracts from diary of a German soldier, no name, May-June 1944 (#36)

Extracts from diary of Oberstabartz Kuentzell, September-October 1944; appeal signed by German officers Kuentzell and Mueller to German authorities to treat a group of F.F.I. members not as francs-tireurs
but as regular POWs if the latter are taken as prisoners because these F.F.I. members had treated the German officers exceptionally
well when the Germans were prisoners of these F.F.I. members (#37)

No moral scruples permissible in war (Admiral v. Reuter) (#100) (1945 October 5)

Greiser to leaders on methods for administration of Poland (#101) (1945 October 5)

Duplicates (#102)

Growing distrust between Hitler and Army, June 1943; proposals to remove this by turning Panzer Grenadier Div. "Grossdeutschland" into elite Corps of Army (as against the Waffen-SS)
(#103) (1945 October 5)

Battle for preservation by Gen. Winter re policy in areas of German and looted works of art, valuables, and documents in Austrian
saltmines, German policy of seizure of art treasures (#119) (1945 October 18)

Memorandum by Gen. Winter re policy in areas of France and Belgium expected to be re-occupied during Rundstedt's Ardennes
offensive (#120) (1945 October 25)

Two men from Malm_ving in the German Army are anxious for the Allies to end the war quickly - these sympathies appear to be
shared by Alsatians and Luxemburgers fighting on the Lithuanian front, November 1944 (#1596)

Extracts from a letter written by a German sailor stationed on the Aegean coast at a "Seetransporthaupstelle," November 1944 (#1597)

Extracts from diary of German officer Lt. Friedrich Jockschmann written in captivity, December 1944 (#1598)

Extracts from letters written by German soldiers on the Italian and Russian front, December 1944 (#1599)

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Pledge to hold Boulogne to the last man signed by officers of Gren. Rgt. 1039 and 3rd A.R. 164, December 1944 (#1600)

Extracts from "Mitteilungen f_pe," tactlessly worded (a) letters of condolence to relatives of fellow soldiers killed in action;
(b) German authorities anxious: Wearing of trophies has been taken as indicating sympathy for the Russians; (c) "British stirring
up hatred against officers," December 1944 (#1606)

NCO observations from "Der politische Soldat," September 1944; importance of "so-called trivialities" regarding officers'
conduct - Being "National' is not sufficient, we must also be called "social,'" December 1944 (#1607)

NSFO directives, December 1944 (#1608)

Extracts from speech on "Deutsche und europ3che Geistesfreiheit" by Alfred Rosenberg, delivered in Prague, 16 January 1944 ; British and USA post-war aims - the Allies as "destructors of European culture," December 1944 (#1609)

Twelve extracts from letters written by German civilians, December 1944 (#1610)

Transcripts of and excerpts from letters and telephone conversations of German civilians processed by the United States Civil
Censorship Submission, United States Forces European Theater, arranged chronologically

See HANDBOOKS, GUIDES, AND MANUALS/War Office/
Military Headquarters and Installations in Germany; and HANDBOOKS, GUIDES, AND MANUALS/ War Office/
Notes on G.S.G.S. Maps of Germany, Denmark, and Central Europe

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Military Headquarters and Installations in Germany

Box/Folder 27 : 7

Notes on G.S.G.S. Maps of Germany, Denmark, and Central Europe

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Intelligence Reports, 1944-1948.

Scope and Content Note

Daily, weekly, and monthly serials produced by various agencies of American and British governments. Arranged alphabetically
by issuing agency

General

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Accession list of books regarding Germany and World War II, 1939-1945.